NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR 2007

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Honky tonky

Thursday, September 20, 2007 | 09:33 AM ET

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The above was the scene on Wednesday, as the Liberal campaign bus drove past the Progressive Conservative bus on a street in Twillingate. By coincidence, both PC Leader Danny Williams and Liberal Leader Gerry Reid were on the hunt for support ... in Reid's own district of the Isles of Notre Dame.

The leaders may have been tossing the rhetoric around on the hustings, but the buses behaved: a polite exchange of honks as they passed in the sunshine.

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